She was back at Lambeau Field on Sunday, Dec. 7, but on the other side of the rivalry. And Biles had another fit to show off on the field ahead of Owens’ game for the Bears against the Packers. Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history with 41 medals between world championships and Olympics, sported an all-gray look with a ...
The NCAA volleyball tournament field has been narrowed to 16 teams. Fifteen of the top 16 seeds advanced over the first and second rounds and will begin Sweet 16 play on Thursday, Dec. 11 or Friday, Dec. 12. Cal Poly produced the lone upset, taking down No. 4 seed USC in the Lexington regional. The Mustangs will face Kentucky, the ...
Every week for the duration of the 2025 regular season, USA TODAY Sports will provide timely updates to the NFL’s ever-evolving playoff picture − typically starting Sunday afternoon and then moving forward for the remainder of the week (through Monday’s and Thursday’s games or Saturday’s, if applicable. And, when the holidays roll around, we’ll be watching then, too). What just happened? What does it ...
The football seemingly bounced the Kansas City Chiefs’ way all of last season as they won 11 one-score games. The football is continuously bouncing in the opposite direction this year. Kansas City’s 20-10 loss to the Houston Texans was emblematic of their season. Whether it’s a 43-yard Harrison Butker field goal that doinked off the upright, a football that slipped ...
Mike Macdonald called on Rashid Shaheed to provide a spark for the Seahawks in Sunday’s game against the Falcons. Shaheed delivered with a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown that broke open the game. The Seahawks are leaning on complementary football while discovering different ways to win. ATLANTA – With his Seattle Seahawks clearly sputtering for the first half of ...
James Madison is in. Notre Dame is out. The College Football Playoff saved the biggest drama for the final rankings, bumping the Sun Belt champions into the tournament over ACC champion Duke and Miami instead of the Fighting Irish for the final at-large spot. In the end, the selection committee leaned on the Hurricanes’ head-to-head win against Notre Dame to ...
For Social Security it has been a miserable year. After President Donald Trump unleashed Elon Musk and DOGE on the Social Security Administration, the agency lost more staff in a shorter period of time than ever before in its 90-year history. Fortunately, public outcry and pushback from congressional Democrats saved Social Security from a 50% cut to staffing and the closure of scores of field ...
Notre Dame football was controversially left out of the College Football Playoff bracket on Sunday, Dec. 7. In turn, the Fighting Irish’s season is over. Notre Dame, despite finishing with a 10-2 record, four wins above bowl eligibility, announced it is declining a bowl invitation a few hours after Alabama and Miami took the final two at-large bids over the ...
The CFP committee watched Georgia trample Alabama and then pretended it never happened. CFP committee deploys chicanery to reach the bracket destination it desired. Alabama and Miami in, Notre Dame out. That’s fine, but process so messy. I swear the SEC championship game happened. More than 77,000 fans attended it. I covered it. Millions more watched on TV as Georgia ...
The bowl system around which the college football postseason has been built for decades has encountered a bit of a problem this year. It’s having trouble finding teams that want to participate. On Sunday, Dec. 7, one day after conference championship weekend officially wrapped up, the College Football Playoff revealed its 12-team field while the non-playoff bowl games began announcing ...